Beware of Raccoons in Southern IN, etc.

WJD · Jun 4, 2012

Just returned from a two week trip. Reccoons are everywhere. They are not animals to feed or try to make pets of. They can carry rabies and more commonly distemper (sp?). In IN if you trap they have to be released in the same county as they were trapped, of course use care such as heavy gloves. They are not a protected species and it is leagal to kill them at least someone at animal control told me.
Don't leave any food laying around.
Don't want to insult anyone but do want to help ensure nobody is hurt, etc,.

kyplowboy · Jun 4, 2012

They are thick on this side of the river too!

About 15 years ago the state tightened up on hunting regs about the time the fur buisness went to nothing. I used to know lots of folks that hunted them, know no one now and the numbers have just kept go'n up. We had some move in at work. A guy had to get a water sample from down by the raw water lake and got to close to one, he fell and hurt his leg try'n to get a way from it on rip rap. (I am not going to comment on the "manlyness" of this guy or the lack there of.) I asked the boss if I could bring my "Have-A-Heart box trap in. When she seen it she laughed know'n me and said it should be a "Have-No-Heart" trap, she figured out what the 20' rope was for.

Dave

John730D · Jun 4, 2012

They may well be a protected species (sp) but I never saw a law written on a piece of paper stop a bullet. It just goes right through the paper. SSS

rustyfarmall · Jun 4, 2012

It IS okay to feed them. Just be very selective as to WHAT you feed them.
They are very fond of anything sweet.

RayP(MI) · Jun 4, 2012

They're road kill all over central Michigan too. Where'd they all come from?

BushogPapa · Jun 4, 2012

You can safely figure there are 10 times as many as you think...!!
Got 37 Coons out of one barn and it was surrounded by 60 acres of tilled land..!
Cannot grow Grapes around here..the Coons get them before they are ready..even if you keep catching them..sometimes 2 in a trap at a time..!
Have my traps shot up pretty bad, I have shot so many..!!
Just doing my Duty...!!!
Now...about those Coyotes....???
Will a dose of 2-4-D do them in..?
Draino in some food..??
Ron..

BushogPapa · Jun 4, 2012

You can safely figure there are 10 times as many as you think...!!
Got 37 Coons out of one barn and it was surrounded by 60 acres of tilled land..!
Cannot grow Grapes around here..the Coons get them before they are ready..even if you keep catching them..sometimes 2 in a trap at a time..!
Have my traps shot up pretty bad, I have shot so many..!!
Just doing my Duty...!!!
Now...about those Coyotes....???
Will a dose of 2-4-D do them in..?
Draino in some food..??
Ron..

Dean Olson · Jun 4, 2012

Thick here around Houston also. In and out of town. City folks leave cat and dog food outside, garbage, and the natural food sources means they thrive. They're like rats for every 1 you see there are a dozen you don't.

Neighbor is an animal lover and keeps food out for all the strays. This creates a lot of stray cats and coons. She was complaining about how much feed she was having to buy and I made a comment about feeding every coon,skunk and possum around. It never occurred to her that more than just cats eat cat food.

I have very little issues with them other than the game of keeping them out of the garden. Every once in a while one will get in and not figure out how to get out before I get there.

WJD · Jun 4, 2012

I was told not many people are hunting them anymore (hence the over population) as the hides/fur is only worth about $5.00, a few years ago it was apparently wortg $25.00-$35.00. This is second hand information so use it with caution.

MikeinKy · Jun 4, 2012

I got me a Great Pyrenees dog, and I'm not bothered by coons or coyotes either. She just plain don't like 'em. If she catches one it is history. Anything that don't belong here don't stay, including stray dogs. But she likes cats, any cat in the neighborhood is welcome.

toadady · Jun 4, 2012

the lack of winter was no help either.

ShadetreeRet · Jun 4, 2012

Here in central NC we have more cases of rabid coons than any other animal. A few years ago most of the roadkill you saw was 'possums, now it's coons.

David G · Jun 4, 2012

They do not swim well in the cage.

Mark - IN. · Jun 4, 2012

You know? I've noticed the same with skunks. I think its because the cages are full of holes and don't float very well.

Mark

kyplowboy · Jun 4, 2012

Yep. I have a half lab half chow dog and he hates coons and possums. Cats sleep on him in the winter.

First time I seen him get one my brother and I were cook'n in the front yard and the old Hank dog took off into the knee high corn field. We went to see what the ruckus was about and he had chaised a big sow coon about 150 yards and there was a 12' circle of flat corn. Both of his ears are noched up like a good hunt'n dog, no tell'n how many he has killed in the 10 or so years he's called this place home.

Dave

kyplowboy · Jun 4, 2012

Yep and it makes turn'n them loose alot less interesting!

Dave

Stephen Newell · Jun 4, 2012

Is this what you are talking about?

fixerupper · Jun 4, 2012

For some reason I haven't seen many here lately in my part of NWIA. Maybe a disease went through them. There are a few splattered on the road but not as many as normal. Jim

Anonymous-0 · Jun 4, 2012

According to the Indiana DNR website, raccoons can only be hunted or trapped between November 8, 2012 and January 31, 2013. Any other hunting or trapping is considered to be out of season....EXCEPT...

"Nuisance Animals:
A resident landowner or tenant may take, using legal methods, without a permit, a beaver, mink, muskrat, long-tailed weasel, red fox, gray fox, opossum, skunk, gray squirrel, fox squirrel or raccoon that is discovered damaging property. The landowner or tenant who takes the animal must release it on land in the county where it was captured only with permission of the landowner or property manager (public land) or euthanize the animal within 24 hours of capture. These nuisance animals cannot be possessed for more than 24 hours and cannot be sold, traded, bartered or gifted.
If the animal is released, it must be released in the county of capture. The conservation officer will direct you on how to dispose of the animal."
Indiana DNR Information

tjdub · Jun 5, 2012

A local guy who is into hunting coons and training hounds asked to hunt them on my farm a few years ago. I said, ABSOLUTELY, but if you let any of them live, you're BANNED. He had a chuckle and asked if I've been having some trouble with them and I told him I certainly did and I'd I shot about 30 of them in my yard that summer. He seemed a little upset. It was the first day of the season, I guess.

johnlobb · Jun 5, 2012

Here in Gregory, MI we have a guy that hunts about 250 nights a year just to the south of me for coons. I never see any any more. This makes me happy, more power to him.

BhB · Jun 5, 2012

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the racoons it could be done.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 5, 2012

Just don't let the "rabbit rangers" hear that you've been shooting them out of season...that's just my advice, and you're free to take it or to ignore it.

xcsp · Jun 5, 2012

The Price of coon hides have been so low there are not to many coonhunters out there.
I still hunt coon here in Ohio

Let me know if you want me to get rid of those coon this hunting season

IndianaRed · Jun 5, 2012

Nice. Love a dog that hates coons.

BushogPapa · Jun 5, 2012

Had a cousin of the Pyrenese...mine was a Kuvasz and he was like that...!!
That dog became a Ghost at night...would not make a sound..but could go past at full speed and all you would hear was the Air moving...!!

Mine LOVED Groundhog and they didn't Last long when he met one.. You could almost read his facial expression...."DINNER"..!!!!!!

Ron..

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